Public order crimes will end up being selectively prosecuted, since it is not possible to prosecute them all.
They charge black students who have been outspoken about racism are being selectively prosecuted.
Even corruption appears to be sometimes selectively prosecuted to sideline opponents.
The defendants argued that they were being selectively prosecuted.
To fail to even selectively prosecute now, they say, would be to squander a crucial chance to finally rein in the armed forces.
Mr. Otis said he was angered at the sentence, saying his clients had been selectively prosecuted and used as scapegoats.
Naturally these cases are selectively prosecuted.
The court ruled that selectively prosecuting Hanegbi for what was a widespread and common practice was wrong and unfair.
Burton and his supporters argued that he was selectively prosecuted, on the orders of President Theodore Roosevelt, for political reasons.
The Government continued to use arbitrary arrest and detention and to selectively prosecute political opponents; prolonged detention was a problem.